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Dell to Open Storefronts in Dallas, New York State
Dell is opening a pair of storefronts this summer and fall, in Dallas and West Nyack, N.Y., as part of a pilot program to extend outreach to consumer and small-business buyers, the company confirmed May 23. But the outlets will carry no inventory and no service components, leaving the direct model king, the PC and…
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Avnet Appoints ATS President Rick Hamada COO
Avnet on May 23 appointed Rick Hamada, president of Avnet Technology Solutions, the distributor’s premier unit, as chief operating officer, handing him tactical control and freeing CEO Roy Vallee to focus on strategy. Effective July 2, Hamada, a 23-year veteran of the Phoenix-based company, will assume day-to-day responsibility for the logistical operations of Avnet Technology…
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Study: MSPs Are Taking Legal Risks
Managed services providers operating under tight customer and partner contracts not only protect themselves legally but also raise the value of their companies. But according to a recent study by the MSP Alliance, some of the companies providing managed services to users don’t take legal protection seriously enough. In some cases, companies forgo legal counsel…
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Send the Marines to Language Lab
They train for weeks, learning combat and disarmament skills, educating themselves in psychological and physical warfare—as well as foreign languages and cultures. In fact, while they are the few and the proud, even the Marines can need help when it comes to assimilating and operating in a foreign land, dealing with different languages and ways…
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Microsoft Launches ‘Pay as You Go’ PC Trials
Cut-rate PC/hardware Windows XP Starter Edition bundles aren’t Microsoft’s only solution for bringing computing to the masses. Microsoft unveiled a new financing program designed to make PCs more affordable to emerging-market customers on May 22, the day before the kick-off of its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle. The new pay-as-you-go program and…
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VA: Veterans’ Personal Data Swiped
The Department of Veterans Affairs said the personal information of up to 26.5 million veterans was swiped from an employee’s home. According to the VA, an employee took home electronic data containing the names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for millions of veterans and some spouses, as well as some disability ratings. The…
